Paul Haggis is a kind of safe Hollywood Bank, a trusted veteran who meets the requirements placed on it. He has earned the respect as a director and author of the dream factory, because he "Crash" won two Oscars unexpected. His screenplays are in demand because he has a sense of what you want to see the audience ( "Million Dollar Baby" ), or because it gives them choice may also miss the final touches ( "Casino Royale" ). And through his public Scientology exit after 35 years membership, he has also worked out a personal profile - Haggis, the resourceful all-rounder. The price rain over "Crash" secured to the vertical launch a temporary fool of freedom, for the already his second directorial effort, the energetic war drama "In the Valley of Elah" , a financial flop had to prove. The neoliberal consensus between the political stances of these two films Stammtisch and dilutive sentiment seems to be first off the table: With "72 hours - The Next Three Days Haggis is trying in the classical genre cinema, But in the U.S. by the film again no one took note. Here, the remake of the French thriller "Guiltless" is ("Pour Elle") so far the most solid work of the director.
all starts peacefully. John (Russell Crowe) and Lara (Elizabeth Banks) make a marriage out of a picture book. They have a son, a beautiful house and demanded jobs. Go eat dinner with friends, have passionate sex and then to assure their mutual love as the day. This idyll, however, ends at once: Shortly after Lara discovers a strange spot of blood on her coat, the police stormed the house and arrested the wife and mother for the murder of her boss. Although they protested their innocence, Lara is among the overwhelming evidence against them and eventually convicted indicted.
To move the family's blessing to crooked straight again, the university teacher John sees no other way than his wife on his own to bring the prison. He meets an ex-con (Hollywood's current all-purpose weapon Liam Neeson), who brought several outbreaks behind him and give him some well-meaning tips on the way there, procured on questionable way money for his illegal rescue operation and is ready to give up everything to Lara captivity to free. However, the police threatened to get behind John's plan, before he can ever put into practice. is in its Americanized remake of the substance Haggis other accents as Fred Cavayé in the template with Diane Kruger, who in this country last year has been released only on DVD. Finding the desperate attempts of her husband, a way for the freedom of his wife were in "without fault" partly reduced to listless Monday, while Haggis it clearly plays out, the focus on Suspense sets and works on classical genre formulas. "The Next Three Days is lurid than the more cumbersome Original, in many ways, but also a correction of the dramatic rather clumsy French thriller.
It proves to be clever ploy to move to clarify the question of guilt to the end of the film. This Haggis generated in contrast to submit a feverish atmosphere that exploits the potential of the story more clearly and made more desperate Russell Crowe's rousing solo a lot. In fact, "The Next Three Days an extremely exciting movie, a Crowdpleaser designed course, but well and effectively set the scene. Also noteworthy is that he fight the anti-hero to the freedom of his wife is not against the alleged Failure of the police and judiciary plays out, but heard the vigilante theme rather casually. At the amorality of the story anyway Haggis entertains no doubt.
Otherwise, the remake, despite its improvements, however, stuck slavishly to the story and adapted even entire settings of the original. Composer Danny Elfman does the driving electronic beats the original, his music but little is original, unimpressive, albeit a little boring. The biggest problem of the film is certainly the lack of credibility of the scenario in dealing with its central protagonist, Crowe plays a role confidence and focus, which in the course of action but to barely comprehensible way of clumsy teacher blossomed to the Master Mind. This character indifference leads to an also correspondingly ill-finals, although significantly different from the original French, but would strongly related to no end. Since then melodramatic moments, among completely misplaced action scenes that bring the previously carefully constructed dramatic structure to collapse almost. Haggis classified potential closing of potential circuit and says it will last but a little too well with his idea of a story all told - in the final meters lost "The Next Three Days flat in sentimentality and succinctly to the audience addressed the Enlightenment attitude that is unfortunately only too typical of its director.
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